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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2, Something to be Scared Of.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Kristeva says the fear of what is truly horrifying?
(a) Love.
(b) Death.
(c) The abject.
(d) Life.

2. According to Kristeva's definition of the abject, the abject cannot be acknowledged through what?
(a) Art.
(b) Experience.
(c) Feeling.
(d) Language.

3. Freud saw his Oedipus complex as what?
(a) A necessary stage in natural selection.
(b) A literary device.
(c) A metaphor.
(d) A stage in childhood development.

4. Kristeva says that when a child's perfect equilibrium of desire and satisfaction is upset he alternates between fear and what?
(a) Need.
(b) Hate.
(c) Anger.
(d) Desire.

5. Freud links a little boy's fear of horses to a fear of what?
(a) Violence.
(b) Death.
(c) Missing sex organs.
(d) His father.

Short Answer Questions

1. Kristeva compares the abject to the experience of looking at a corpse and seeing what?

2. Phobias are irrational fears which have what?

3. What does Kristeva say it is necessary for a child to do because he has to repress his primal fears that still exist in him?

4. The author says the traditional Freudian model of the Oedipal triangle is what?

5. What way does Kristeva say a person will begin to act in when he no longer has any regard for the law?

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